True leaders are the first to admit that they don't know everything and that they need help.

If a leader's actions don't back up his or her words, those who are trying to follow will first grow confused.

And it falls to a true leader to see to it that his or her people have an inspiring vision to pursue.

For how many generations now had his people been turning their backs on things? How long had they sat in their living rooms and watched other people die?

Joy – in the fall, winter, and always in the mountains where people are few, wildlife is abundant and there is peace in the quiet.

Small wonder that spell means both a story told, and a formula of power over living men. -On Fairy Stories

You really felt a radical shift in the advance of a poetics that had really been engendered by [Walt] Whitman. This was very exciting. I wanted to work in this environment.

Potter is potter's enemy, and craftsman is craftsman's rival; tramp is jealous of tramp, and singer of singer.

What is most important is to cease legislating for all lives what is liveable only for some, and similarly, to refrain from proscribing for all lives what is unlivable for some.

Oops, I thought. Oops is an all-purpose word standing for every bit of profanity, blasphemy, and pornographic and scatological execration I could think of.

I see no conflict between science and religion. When you take truth in either one of these realms, science or religion, they match perfectly.

No one was a hero because everyone was a hero.